Patents by Inventor Dennis Cunningham
Dennis Cunningham has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11648992Abstract: A vehicle tailgate configured to secure cargo and methods of using the same. The vehicle tailgate tray have a base portion. The base portion may have a top surface and be attachable to the vehicle. The vehicle tailgate may further have a top portion. The top portion may have a bottom surface and be attachable to the base portion. The top surface and the bottom surface may face each other and be configured to receive and fix the cargo when the top portion and the base portion are attached together. The bottom surface may be configured to adapt to a shape of the cargo.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: James Dennis Cunningham
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Publication number: 20220297770Abstract: A vehicle tailgate configured to secure cargo and methods of using the same. The vehicle tailgate tray have a base portion. The base portion may have a top surface and he attachable to the vehicle. The vehicle tailgate may further have a top portion. The top portion may have a bottom surface and be attachable to the base portion. The top surface and the bottom surface may face each other and be configured to receive and fix the cargo when the top portion and the base portion are attached together. The bottom surface may be configured to adapt to a shape of the cargo.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventor: James Dennis Cunningham
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Publication number: 20220240954Abstract: Surgical drill guides have modular configurations and are adapted to accommodate a wide range of anatomy. The surgical drill guides are adapted to be removed while leaving a guide wire in its intended location in human bone. The distal end of the drill guide acts as a safety stop for the guide wire by preventing the guide wire from penetrating too far past the far side of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Scott Faucett, Jeffrey Wyman, Chun Liu, Roman Gutierrez
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Patent number: 11324523Abstract: A drill guide system provides a means of improved tunnel placement accuracy by allowing the drill guide to articulate to seat against the bone being drilled. The drill guide includes an articulating drill guide adapter constructed in four parts: a top cap, a thumbscrew, a lock tab, and a spring mechanism. The drill guide adapter is part of an aimer arm which mates with a handle on the proximal end and an aimer guide on the distal end. The drill guide adaptor allows the aimer guide to articulate relative to an irregular mating surface, allowing for increased area contact between the aimer guide template and bone. Examples of the drill guide adaptor also include a means for locking the aimer guide into place relative to the aimer arm.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.Inventors: Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Stephen Santangelo, Kimberly Anne Baker
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Patent number: 11321359Abstract: Methods are provided to represent proposed changes to clusterings for ease of review, as well as tools to help subject matter experts identify clusters that warrant review versus those that do not. These tools make overall assessment of proposed clustering changes and targeted curation practical at large scale. Use of these tools and method enables efficient data management operations when dealing with extreme scale, such as where entity resolution involves clusterings created from data sources involving millions of entities.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: TAMR, INC.Inventors: Timothy Kwok Webber, George Anwar Dany Beskales, Dennis Cunningham, Alan Benjamin Wagner Rodriguez, Liam Cleary
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Patent number: 11298143Abstract: Surgical drill guides have modular configurations and are adapted to accommodate a wide range of anatomy. The surgical drill guides are adapted to be removed while leaving a guide wire in its intended location in human bone. The distal end of the drill guide acts as a safety stop for the guide wire by preventing the guide wire from penetrating too far past the far side of the bone.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Scott Faucett, Jeffrey Wyman, Chun Liu, Roman Gutierrez
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Patent number: 11253248Abstract: A meniscal repair instrument includes an articulating mechanism configured to move a needle on the tip in a controlled arc. Multiple directions of motion are provided in order to facilitate the deployment of suture anchors. In one aspect, the articulating mechanism includes a series of movable members that are coupled together by two wires that are provided with a push/pull force via a control mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham
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Publication number: 20220004565Abstract: Methods are provided to represent proposed changes to clusterings for ease of review, as well as tools to help subject matter experts identify clusters that warrant review versus those that do not. These tools make overall assessment of proposed clustering changes and targeted curation practical at large scale. Use of these tools and method enables efficient data management operations when dealing with extreme scale, such as where entity resolution involves clusterings created from data sources involving millions of entities.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Timothy Kwok WEBBER, George Anwar Dany BESKALES, Dennis CUNNINGHAM, Alan Benjamin WAGNER RODRIGUEZ, Liam CLEARY
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Patent number: 10772622Abstract: A tissue repair device including a handle, an elongated needle body defining an axial bore extending from the handle, first and second implants connected by a suture and disposed at least partially within the axial bore of the needle. A ratchet assembly includes a pusher member that incrementally advances through the needle body to urge the first and second implants therefrom in a predefined sequence, a proximally-biased rotatable ratchet coupled to the pusher member, and an axially translatable drive mechanism configured to provide axial and rotational driving forces causing the ratchet to alternately engage and disengage from successively more distal teeth of a toothed surface within the handle. One or more implant retention features impeded undesired expulsion of implants from the needle.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham
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Publication number: 20200222066Abstract: A drill guide system provides a means of improved tunnel placement accuracy by allowing the drill guide to articulate to seat against the bone being drilled. The drill guide includes an articulating drill guide adapter constructed in four parts: a top cap, a thumbscrew, a lock tab, and a spring mechanism. The drill guide adapter is part of an aimer arm which mates with a handle on the proximal end and an aimer guide on the distal end. The drill guide adaptor allows the aimer guide to articulate relative to an irregular mating surface, allowing for increased area contact between the aimer guide template and bone. Examples of the drill guide adaptor also include a means for locking the aimer guide into place relative to the aimer arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Stephen Santangelo, Kimberly Anne Baker
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Patent number: 10639048Abstract: A drill guide system provides a means of improved tunnel placement accuracy by allowing the drill guide to articulate to seat against the bone being drilled. The drill guide includes an articulating drill guide adapter constructed in four parts: a top cap, a thumbscrew, a lock tab, and a spring mechanism. The drill guide adapter is part of an aimer arm which mates with a handle on the proximal end and an aimer guide on the distal end. The drill guide adaptor allows the aimer guide to articulate relative to an irregular mating surface, allowing for increased area contact between the aimer guide template and bone. Examples of the drill guide adaptor also include a means for locking the aimer guide into place relative to the aimer arm.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Stephen Santangelo, Kimberly Anne Baker
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Publication number: 20190274697Abstract: Surgical drill guides have modular configurations and are adapted to accommodate a wide range of anatomy. The surgical drill guides are adapted to be removed while leaving a guide wire in its intended location in human bone. The distal end of the drill guide acts as a safety stop for the guide wire by preventing the guide wire from penetrating too far past the far side of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Scott Faucett, Jeffrey Wyman, Chun Liu, Roman Gutierrez
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Publication number: 20190183482Abstract: A meniscal repair instrument includes an articulating mechanism configured to move a needle on the tip in a controlled arc. Multiple directions of motion are provided in order to facilitate the deployment of suture anchors. In one aspect, the articulating mechanism includes a series of movable members that are coupled together by two wires that are provided with a push/pull force via a control mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham
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Publication number: 20190149947Abstract: A method for capturing a user's location and displaying it to viewing users and partner users. The method further includes dynamic communication between virtual boundaries through low frequency radio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Dennis Cunningham, Roger Dalal
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Publication number: 20180153564Abstract: A drill guide system provides a means of improved tunnel placement accuracy by allowing the drill guide to articulate to seat against the bone being drilled. The drill guide includes an articulating drill guide adapter constructed in four parts: a top cap, a thumbscrew, a lock tab, and a spring mechanism. The drill guide adapter is part of an aimer arm which mates with a handle on the proximal end and an aimer guide on the distal end. The drill guide adaptor allows the aimer guide to articulate relative to an irregular mating surface, allowing for increased area contact between the aimer guide template and bone. Examples of the drill guide adaptor also include a means for locking the aimer guide into place relative to the aimer arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Stephen Santangelo, Kimberly Anne Baker
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Publication number: 20180116654Abstract: A tissue repair device including a handle, an elongated needle body defining an axial bore extending from the handle, first and second implants connected by a suture and disposed at least partially within the axial bore of the needle. A ratchet assembly includes a pusher member that incrementally advances through the needle body to urge the first and second implants therefrom in a predefined sequence, a proximally-biased rotatable ratchet coupled to the pusher member, and an axially translatable drive mechanism configured to provide axial and rotational driving forces causing the ratchet to alternately engage and disengage from successively more distal teeth of a toothed surface within the handle. One or more implant retention features impeded undesired expulsion of implants from the needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham
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Patent number: 8596403Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a right side member and a left side member with a motor compartment disposed therebetween, a motor compartment cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, the motor compartment cross member coupled to the left side member and the right side member, a front cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, wherein the front cross member is spaced apart from the motor compartment cross member in a vertical direction, and a motor mount member extending between the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, wherein the motor mount member is coupled to the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, the motor mount member comprising an attachment point for receiving a corresponding coupler of an electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: James Dennis Cunningham, Taichi Yamashita, Alan Williams
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Publication number: 20130248275Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a right side member and a left side member with a motor compartment disposed therebetween, a motor compartment cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, the motor compartment cross member coupled to the left side member and the right side member, a front cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, wherein the front cross member is spaced apart from the motor compartment cross member in a vertical direction, and a motor mount member extending between the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, wherein the motor mount member is coupled to the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, the motor mount member comprising an attachment point for receiving a corresponding coupler of an electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: James Dennis Cunningham, Taichi Yamashita, Alan Williams
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Patent number: 7431267Abstract: An apparatus for pulling cable includes: a frame for attaching the apparatus to a skid steer loader or similar easily maneuverable construction vehicle; a drum mounted for rotation with respect to the frame; and a hydraulic motor for rotating the drum. The hydraulic motor uses the hydraulic system of the skid steer loader or similar easily maneuverable construction vehicle to rotate the drum and draw a pull line through the conduit and onto the drum, causing a cable attached to the pull line to be pulled through the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2006Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Inventor: Dennis Cunningham
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Patent number: D572115Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2006Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Inventors: Dennis Cunningham, Christie Cunningham